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Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy NewsFri, 22 Feb 2019 10:14:36 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3TorrentfreakBitshttps://feedburner.google.comSteal This Show S04E11: ‘Software Will Eat The World’http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/BKzjXe-fqaM/
https://torrentfreak.com/steal-this-show-s04e11-software-will-eat-the-world/#respondTue, 05 Feb 2019 13:14:52 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=167892Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode, we talk with Evan (Rabble) Henshaw-Plath, co-founder of Indymedia, and one of the originators of Twitter.

]]>This is part one of a two-part interview with @Rabble — activist, technologist, co-founder of Indymedia, and one of the originators of Twitter.

We discuss the origins of Twitter in the protest organisation tool TxtMob; Evan’s work developing Indymedia and the early days of tech’s interaction with activism; how social media is continuing to mutate politics, for better and worse; how the sorting algorithms developed by Big Social are becoming indelibly embedded in our world — and finally Evan introduces the subject of part two: Silicon Valley’s hidden mission to restructure the world’s institutions via software.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-this-show-s04e11-software-will-eat-the-world/feed/0https://torrentfreak.com/steal-this-show-s04e11-software-will-eat-the-world/Steal This Show S04E10: ‘Rebuilding Our Cultural OS?’http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/n92o_ajKsUY/
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 21:14:30 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=166939Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode, we talk with Rich Bartlett, co-founder of Loomio.

]]>Loomio has already come up a few times on this show. It’s an open-source civic platform designed to help people make decisions collaboratively, and it’s been used by everyone from Pirate Parties to City Councils.

In this episode I met up with with Loomio’s Rich Bartlett to discuss the relationship of software to social change — how platforms like Facebook and Slack embed coded ideas about how people should relate to and interact with each other, and how Loomio is trying to design for new modes of interaction and consensus springing up in and around the social movements.

We discuss how a truly decentralised, horizontally organized society might look and talk through Loomio’s attempts to build the software to power it. Finally, we talk about how to upgrade what Rich calls our ‘cultural operating system’. Where does change really start: with our social organization, with our software or with ourselves?

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-this-show-s04e10-rebuilding-our-cultural-os/Steal This Show S04E09: ‘Is The Future Of Secrets Shared?’http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/3xZjLdNbU1U/
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 09:03:16 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=164641Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode, we talk with Peg and Kieran from Dark Crystal, an Ethereum Foundation-funded project to safely store private keys.

]]>After a series of high-profile hacks, trusting social media corporations to store and safeguard our personal information looks an increasingly bad idea. And many are understandably wary about letting platforms look after their cryptocurrency investments. Custody of our digital assets, it seems, is shaping up to be a key issue for network citizens.

Enter Dark Crystal, an Ethereum Foundation-funded project enabling users to store private keys — from Bitcoin to email encryption and beyond — with and inside their communities and social networks. To do this, Dark Crystal makes use of the mathematical magic behind Shamir’s Shared Secret, allowing groups of friends to safely store different ‘shards’ of a key, bringing it together as and when needed.

In this episode, we meet Peg and Kieran from Dark Crystal to discuss the implications of the project: what happens when custody of our most precious digital resources can be taken away from banks and megacorps and entrusted to friends, family and community? And do projects like Dark Crystal signal the beginning of a new, cryptography-based ‘information commons’?

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-this-show-s04e09-is-the-future-of-secrets-shared/Steal This Show S04E08: ‘Click Here To Kill Everybody’http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/z3yycHcRqPA/
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:30:35 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=163487Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode, we talk with computer security & cryptography legend Bruce Schneier about the dangers of the massive proliferation of computing devices.

In this episode we meet up with Bruce to explore how the profusion of insecure devices, capable of being put to a variety of unpredictable purposes, is radically shifting the balance of power. Via cyberattacks, smaller states get the ability to content with the great powers — and an entirely new class of ‘non-state actors’ are being granted the power to disrupt nations.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-this-show-s04e08-click-here-to-kill-everybody/Steal This Show S04E07: ‘Bangladesh Bank Heist, Part 1http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/3BhA9z76Sgw/
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:04:02 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=162904Today we bring you the first part of our special Steal This Show podcast series "Advanced Persistent Threat," which takes a closer look at the 2016 Bangladesh Bank Heist. Cheryl Biswas, Strategic Threat Intel Analyst in Cyber Security at a Big Four consulting firm, provides some key insights.

It was carried out almost entirely in the digital realm, using a variety of exploits and malware, in order to leverage access to the SWIFT banking network and the US Federal Reserve.

In Part One, we look at exactly what happened in the Bangladesh heist, and walk through how it was carried out. To help us through the complex story, we hear from Cheryl Biswas, Strategic Threat Intel Analyst in Cyber Security at a Big Four consulting firm.

After covering the how of the robbery, we consider whether trusted systems like SWIFT can remain secure in an information environment replete with radically heterogeneous, eminently hackable device

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Cheryl Biswas wishes to make clear that she speaks here on her own behalf Her views do not represent those of her employer.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-this-show-s04e07-bangladesh-bank-heist-part-1/Steal This Show S04E05: ‘Satoshi Is Dead’http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/0WgBORsEVmA/
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:55:20 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=161607Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode we talk with Emin Gün Sirer, co-director of The Initiative For Cryptocurrencies & Contracts and associate professor of computer science at Cornell University.

]]>In this episode we meet Emin Gün Sirer. We discuss the current state of cryptocurrency, and just what Emin means when he says that Satoshi Nakamoto is ‘dead.’

We discover the secret shared lineage between BitTorrent and Cryptocurrency, and how they both tackle the ‘chaos of the commons’.

Of course, TRON’s recent acquisition of BitTorrent, Inc. comes in for some scrutiny — Emin remains, let’s say, skeptical. And, finally, we look at Emin’s work on and around the all-new Avalanche protocol, which he sees as the most significant contribution to cryptocurrency since Bitcoin itself.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s04e05-satoshi-dead/Steal This Show S04E04: ‘Solarpunk Social’, with Scuttlebutthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/RXuRKG8v3X8/
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:15:17 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=160649Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode we talk with Zenna, Andre and Zack from Scuttlebutt.

]]>In this episode we meet Zenna, Andre and Zack from Scuttlebutt, a P2P-based social ‘network of networks’ based around a BitTorrent-like distribution technology.

After figuring out what Scuttlebutt is (and is not) we discuss: the roots of Scuttlebutt in New Zealand, the system’s politically anarchist/libertarian ethos, how Scuttlebutt survived (or shrugged off) a right-wing deluge; and how SSB’s technical architecture eliminates the need for moderators.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s04e04-solarpunk-social-scuttlebutt/Steal This Show S04E03: ‘Printing A New Reality’, with Cory Doctorowhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/5Uc2z9Hvib4/
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:47:09 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=159540Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode we talk about the 'copyfight,' censorship, and the future of the Internet with Cory Doctorow, sci-fi author and co-founder of Boing Boing.

]]>Cory’s most recent book, Walkaway, is a story of refusing a life of surveillance and control under a high-tech oligarchy and the struggle to live in a post-scarcity gift economy where even death has been defeated.

Over this one hour plus interview we discuss:

– Whether file-sharing & P2P communities have lost the battle to streaming services like Netflix and Spotify, and why the ‘copyfight’ is still important
– How the European Copyright Directive eats at the fabric of the Web, making it even harder to compete with content giants
– Why breaking up companies like Google and Facebook might be the only way to restore an internet — and a society — we can all live with.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s04e03-printing-new-reality-cory-doctorow/Steal This Show S04E02: Crypto & The Beyondhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/rLCTRiuuMgo/
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:15:26 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=158812Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode we talk about the crypto revolution with Primavera De Filippi, blockchain researcher at Harvard University and CNRS.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s04e02-crypto-beyond/Steal This Show S04E01: Building Botnets For Fun & Profithttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/qnSpI4hmcAg/
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 06:12:58 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=158178Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode we talk about botnets with Abhishta, who's a researcher at the University of Twente.

This fascinating research was widely discussed on release, at least partly due to its insights into the astonishing sums of money botnet operators are making — and how they’re doing it.

We sit down with Abhishta to discuss how Botnets are created, and the multiple ways they can be used to make profit for their operators; attacks on critical internet infrastructure like Dyn; and the surprising actors behind some big DDOS attacks on banks in the Netherlands.

Abhishta fills us in on so-called ‘stresser‘ botnet operations like Lizard Stresser, a kind of rent-a-botnet model, and we consider the surprising accessibility of mother of all attacks: a DDOS against the internet itself — and how it could be used to net billions of dollars.

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Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary, and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary, and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s04e01-building-botnets-fun-profit/The Pirate Bay’s Downtime Troubles Continue (Update)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/II46p4ZV3BY/
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:02:09 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=157547The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for the past week. No further details have been announced but the Tor version of the site remains operational. However, with many instances of downtime this year already, this hardly passes as "news" anymore.

]]>About a week ago we reported that The Pirate Bay’s upload functionality was broken.

While this problem was eventually solved after a few days, the regular domain became unusable soon after.

Today, more than five days later, the problem persists. For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that a “bad gateway” is causing the issue.

No further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return. However, judging from past experience, it’s likely some technical issue that needs fixing.

TPB 502 Cloudflare error

The Pirate Bay has had quite a few stints of downtime in recent months, and by now it’s becoming a regular occurrence. While more than five days is a new record, aside from the 2014 ‘raid,’ there’s no news to report.

The moderators in the official forums don’t appear to have any information on the ongoing issues either. They do point out, however, that the site is not down completely.

TPB is still available via its .onion address on the Tor network, accessible using the popular Tor Browser, for example. The site’s Tor traffic goes through a separate server and works just fine.

The Pirate Bay team has a status page in the forums where people can check to see if an outage is affecting everyone or not. This also shows that the Tor version of the site is working fine. At least, at the time of writing.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bays-downtime-troubles-continue-180625/The Pirate Bay Suffers Extended Downtime, Again… (Update)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/Nt9tTAfsepg/
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 05:08:16 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=156994The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for the past two days, causing concern among many BitTorrent users. No further details have been announced, but judging from past experience the outage is likely being caused by temporary technical issues. The Tor version of the site remains operational, but without new content.

For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that a “bad gateway” is causing the issue.

No further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return. However, judging from past experience, it’s likely a small technical issue that needs fixing.

TPB 502 Cloudflare error

The Pirate Bay has had quite a few stints of downtime in recent months. The popular torrent site usually returns after several hours, but an outage of more than a day has happened before as well.

Amid the downtime, there’s still some good news for those who desperately need to access the notorious torrent site.

TPB is still available via its .onion address on the Tor network, accessible using the popular Tor Browser, for example. The site’s Tor traffic goes through a separate server and works just fine.

The Pirate Bay team has a status page in the forums where people can check to see if an outage is affecting everyone or not. This also shows that the Tor version of the site is working fine, although it doesn’t show any new torrents.

The main .org domain will probably be back in action soon enough, but seasoned TPB users will probably know the drill by now…

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-suffers-extended-downtime-again-180613/Steal This Show S03E16: The TAO of the DAO Pt. 2http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/tAxBs0GFDiw/
Fri, 25 May 2018 14:50:15 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=156217Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode, we talk to Chris Beams again, founder of the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bisq.

This is the second part of our interview with Chris Beams, founder of the decentralised cryptocurrency exchange, Bisq. We discuss the inner workings of the Bisq service, how it compares to the widely used platform Local Bitcoins, and the intricacies of designing decentral P2P systems for financial operations.

From there, we move into some of the political/philosophical implications of Bisq as a Distributed Autonomous Organisation (DAO): are we evolving, with Bitcoin and other P2P networks, functionalities which parallel certain present-day institutions, and which could one day eliminate the need for establishment altogether?

And could a future democracy be composed of “opt-in” components that actually do better at providing for our basic human needs?

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Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary, and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary, and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s03e16-tao-dao-pt-2/The Pirate Bay Suffers Extended Downtime, Tor Domain Is Up (Updated)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/Mj1LMvGDiuw/
Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:55:19 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=154583The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for more than a day, causing concern among some BitTorrent users. The outage is likely caused by technical issues, so the site is expected to resurface soon. Meanwhile, some of the site's proxies and its Tor domain are still working fine.

]]>The main Pirate Bay domain has been offline for the last one-and-a-half days.

For most people, the site currently displays a Cloudflare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider referring to a “bad gateway.”

No further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return. Judging from past experience, however, it’s likely a small technical hiccup that needs fixing.

There are no issues with the domain name itself and Cloudflare seems to be fully functional as well.

Pirate Bay downtime, bad gateway

TorrentFreak hasn’t heard anything from the TPB team but these type of outages are not unusual. The Pirate Bay has had quite a few stints of downtime in recent months. The popular torrent site usually returns after several hours.

Amid the downtime, there’s still some good news for those who desperately need to access the notorious torrent site. TPB is still available via its .onion address on the Tor network, accessible using the popular Tor Browser, for example.

The site’s Tor traffic goes through a separate server and works just fine. However, based on the irregular uploads, that’s not going completely smoothly either.

In addition, some of The Pirate Bay’s unofficial proxy sites are still working fine and showing new torrents.

As always, more details on The Pirate Bay’s current status are available on the official forum, but don’t expect any ETA there.

“Patience is the game we are all playing for now,” TPB moderator demonS notes.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-suffers-extended-downtime-tor-domain/The Pirate Bay Suffers Extended Downtime (Update)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/rLS8vOiH2hc/
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 04:52:44 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=152154The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach for the past 24 hours, causing concern among many BitTorrent users. No further details have been announced, but judging from past experience the outage is likely being caused by temporary technical issues.

For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that the “connection timed out.”

No further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return.

However, judging from past experience, it’s likely a small technical issue that needs fixing.

TPB 522 Cloudflare error

The Pirate Bay has had quite a few stints of downtime in recent months. The popular torrent site usually returns after several hours, but an outage of more than 24 hours has happened before as well.

The Pirate Bay team has a status page in the forums where people can check to see if an outage is affecting everyone or not. This also shows that the Tor version of the site is suffering downtime, although it briefly reappeared a few times.

As always, the TPB team advises people to be patient.

“If our sites are down we’ll already know and be working on getting them back up. We don’t issue estimates so don’t ask how long it will take,” the status page notes.

In any case, there’s no need to panic. But we expect that seasoned TPB users will probably know the drill by now…

Update: And they’re back…

Update March 6: And it’s down again, for nearly a day. Tor is up this time though.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-suffers-extended-downtime-180301/Steal This Show S03E13: The Tao of The DAOhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/hz4YDHrvzqk/
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:10:18 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=151611Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest decentralization and file-sharing news. In this episode, we talk to Chris Beams, founder of the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bisq.

In this episode, we meet Chris Beams, founder of the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bisq. We discuss the concept of DAOs (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) and whether The Pirate Bay was an early example; how the start of Bitcoin parallels the start of the Internet itself; and why the meretricious Bitcoin Cash fork of Bitcoin is based on a misunderstanding of Open Source development.

Finally, we get into Bisq itself, discussing the potential political importance of decentralized crypto exchanges in the context of any future attempts by the financial establishment to control cryptocurrency.

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Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary, and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary, and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s03e13-tao-dao/Steal This Show S03E12: Attack Of The Propaganda Botshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/xEaeTVBkqRo/
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:17:12 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=149295Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest file-sharing and copyright news. In this episode, we talk to Sam Woolley, Research Director at IFTF Digital Intelligence Lab.

In this episode, we meet Sam Woolley, director of the Digital Intelligence Lab at the Institute for the Future, to dig deeper into the topic of troll farms, political disinformation and the use of social media bots to create what Sam calls ‘Computational Propaganda’.

What happens when the ability to create propaganda is democratized out of the hands of governments and corporate media and into the hands of unknown, weird and downright dangerous online actors?

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Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary, and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary, and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s03e12-attack-propaganda-bots/Steal This Show S03E11: The Nerd Reichhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/W0xd93P43tc/
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:14:10 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=147845Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest file-sharing and copyright news. In this episode, we talk to Vinay Gupta, global resilience guru, and the CEO of Mattereum.

Vinay served as Release Co-ordinator for the Ethereum project and is now CEO of Mattereum, ‘the first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project, bringing legally-enforceable smart contracts to the internet.’

We discuss: the idea of a ‘nerd Reich’ that has either usurped power from or merged with global governmental power; how and why we now live in a market-driven version of Orwell’s 1984; and Vinay’s concept of de-governance, and why the modern nation-state is the wrong platform to solve the problems that face us today.

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Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary, and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary, and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds.

]]>https://torrentfreak.com/steal-show-s03e11-nerd-reich/Steal This Show S03E10: The Battle Of The Botshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TorrentfreakBits/~3/d9385J6cyXM/
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 20:10:24 +0000http://torrentfreak.com/?p=146789Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing renegade media and the latest file-sharing and copyright news. In this episode, we talk to Ben Nimmo, Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.

It seems everyone’s getting in on the “fake news” game today, from far-right parties in Germany to critics of Catalan separatism — but none more concertedly than the Russian state itself.

In this episode we meet Ben Nimmo, Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, to talk us through the latest patterns and trends in online disinformation and hybrid warfare. ‘People who really want to cause trouble can make up just about anything,’ explains Ben, ‘and the fakes are getting more and more complex. It’s really quite alarming.’

After cluing us in on the state of information warfare today, we discuss evidence that the Russians are deploying a fully-funded ‘Troll Factory’ across dominant social networks whose intent is to distort reality and sway the political conversation in favour of its masters.

We dig deep into the present history of the ‘Battle Of The Bots’, looking specifically at the activities of the fake Twitter account @TEN_GOP, whose misinformation has reached all the way to the highest tier of American government. Can we control or counter these rogue informational entities? What’s the best way to do so? Do we need ‘Asimov Laws’ for a new generation of purely online, but completely real, information entities?

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Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary, and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary, and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds.